Chaos? Order? Balance!
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Title: Chaos? Order? Balance!
Author: Garrett Granth
Hail, readers, intellectuals of Britiannia! I am the Kind Garrett Granth, who, taking time off from writing of his globe-trotting adventures (Most of which involve running very quickly)
Is getting back to his sorcerer's roots, and writing of all things satirical. Today's witty, insightful (or, perhpas, insepid and uninspired) essay shallnot talk of the housing problem here in Britiannia.
For nearly a year now, I have lived aboard nothing more than a small boat, and never required anything more than a sword, a shield, a few items of clothing cut into bandage, and a small supply of the regeants that litter the forests of Moonglow.
Imagine my surprise, then, when I piloted my old beat up small ship into ice island, home to many of my more frigid adventures, and found myself staring at a castle with towers. I sighed and went on my way to fight the orcs. (The details of my orc fighting can be found in "The Adventures of Garrett Granth #5 - When Hell Freezes Over" coming out soon, see the Britiannia Publishers, icq 64910587)
And I ask myself, is this neccessary? Are these fair adventurers (and some not-so fair, I am sure) really true to their character? Would one man actually need an entire castle to himself?
Alas, that is not the point.
The point is to enlighten and inform, and, hopefully, make you laugh, and (if I'm extremely lucky) buy another book. And, truthfully, I cannot think of any way to do that right now, so, I shall be back in a moment... * goes from his desk, gets a bottle of vodka from the barkeep, comes back.
A guzzling noise is heard* Ah, I am back! Inspiration has struck me! Goodday, reader, gooday, rare Britannian intellectual!
For you are rare! You have spent money on something designed not to get you more money, or keep you alive. You have spent money on a book. Instead of feeding your body (and do buy some fish steaks from the next poor fisherman who comes along, it's terribly hard making a living that way) you have chosen to feed your mind. And I congratulate you. On with the satire!
British and Blackthorn! Oh, loe, what ails these two "great leaders"? Chaos, order, chaos, order! It is all foolishness! They might as well be bickering children, ones who do not realize that, while making a powerful intellectual arguement, using the faithful citizens of Britannia as pawns, they are both wrong, only trying to prove themselves right because they can only see that the other one is wrong. Blackthorn cannot have chaos as a ruling principle!
Simply put, chaos would result! Have you seen Fellucia? British cannot have total order, either! For total order is tyranny, and tyrannts are overthrown only by violence, not more order. If you impose chaos, order must be reigned over it, if you impose order, it will be overthrown by chaos. A balance must exist, order must not be overwhelming, people must be allowed the freedom of chaos.
Chaos cannot be total, for then nothing can ever become complex, or good. Either way, these powerful forces must stay in balance, therefore I am glad we have both British and Blackthorn. To remove one is to doom the other, and I hope the order and chaos guilds see this as truth
- Garrett Granth